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Here's something you might not know: the USB-C VirtualLink port on the back of most Nvidia RTX graphics cards isn't just for connecting VR headsets with a single cable, though that is why Nvidia included it. It also works as a completely standard USB-C port, so in theory you can plug in smartphones, USB hubs, headphones, card readers and even high-speed NVMe SSD storage directly into your GeForce graphics card. This is pretty handy, given that many motherboards only include a single USB-C port and many older models don't include any at all. After learning it was possible, we put an RTX 2080's USB-C port to the test. In order to check the capabilities of the VirtualLink port, we plugged in as many USB-C devices, hubs and adapters as we could get our hands on. This felt a little odd - when's the last time you plugged a USB mousepad into your graphics card? - but we did get some interesting results. Here's what we tested, what worked and what we learned in the process. NVMe SSD … [Read more...] about PSA: The USB-C port on Nvidia RTX graphics cards isn’t just for VR

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice will be making its way to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive on July 31, 2018, according to a video uploaded on Ninja Theory’s YouTube channel. Ninja Theory’s latest title Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a tale of love and a woman beset by many troubles. A psychosis has alienated her from her clan, and the only man to ever love her has died. Rather than spend the rest of her life alone, Senua decides to take her husband’s head to the underworld to get him brought back to life. The game’s interesting mechanics and great story atmosphere were two of the game’s many strengths that our review talked about in detail. Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice sold 50,000 copies in its first week on Xbox One and placed in the 2017 TechRaptor Awards for Best Writing and Indie Game of the Year. Ninja Theory had to employ a number of tricks to make Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice work well in VR. In the time … [Read more...] about Experience Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice In VR On July 31

From its inception, Kingdom Come: Deliverance was billed as a game steeped in realism. From period-accurate food and weapon damage to characters drawn from history, Warhorse Studios did its homework. With the game’s release last week, we finally got to play in their (as promised) realistic version of 15th century Bohemia. And it’s oddly baffling. It’s easy to understand what a game so focused on realism and accuracy means — you can’t fly and there are no laser rifles in 15th century Bohemia. It’s much harder to understand a video game that takes that premise of unrelenting realism so seriously. Many hours in, I’ve learned to love this strange and confusing game, a process that started with examining my expectations. Video games tend to have a simple premise: Find sword. Swing sword. Save world. Sure, there are fun twists from time to time, but games usually boil down to being the hero. But in Kingdom Come: Deliverance, you play as Henry, son … [Read more...] about How I learned to love Kingdom Come: Deliverance

Ninja Theory is hiring for a new action game, it seems, as the company recently posted a job listing asking for a Senior Combat Designer. Ninja Theory is the developer of a number of various action games like DMC: Devil May Cry, Heavenly Sword, and Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. All of these games have gotten fairly positive reviews when they released, and Hellblade getting good scores as well, along with a great deal of good press and good sales, have likely galvanized Ninja Theory into making a new game. While the game that said Senior Combat Designer would be working on hasn’t been explained, any successful applicant will likely have their hands full. Ninja Theory is hiring in order to have someone help them work on what they believe will raise the bar on action games, and considering we have people like Platinum developing games, that’s a pretty high bar for them to set. While Hellblade was technically an action game, it didn’t really have the sort of … [Read more...] about Ninja Theory Is Hiring For A New Action Game, Senior Combat Designer Wanted

Fortnite, like PUBG, is a game of a million different stories, but if you leap from the sky and aim straight for the house on Loot Lake you're often going to see one story in particular. Loot Lake is situated near the centre of the Fortnite map, which means that the floating bus that crosses over the island as it deposits players always has a decent chance of coming near it. When it does, I find it an irresistible spot to head for: a lovely sagging mansion built of wood and slate, perched on a little mountain of mud and stone in the middle of still water. It conjures so many nice housey words, this place: gables, flagstones, manse. In truth, I would quite like to live here. But others find it irresistible too, and hence we have the Groundhog Day scenario that the house on Loot Lake is caught within. I parachute in, and as I near the ground, I see someone else has had the same idea. This almost always happens. And what almost always happens next is a sort of polite agreement that takes … [Read more...] about Fortnite’s on its way to being the world’s biggest game, and here’s what makes it special